[R] Student Distribution and Funtion qt

["Antje Schafföner"]

 Hello,
 I am trying to calculate and plot mean and confidence intervall for a set of data. This is the code that I am currently using:


 means <- sapply(data, mean, na.rm=TRUE)
 n <- sapply(data,length)
 stdev <- sqrt(sapply(data, var, na.rm=TRUE))
 ciw <- qt(0.98, n) * stdev / sqrt(n)
 par(mgp=c(2,0.6,0), las=2, fin=c(7,3), mai=c(1,0.5,0.2,0.2), cex=0.8)
 plotCI(x=means, uiw=ciw, ylim=c(0,100), col="red",col.axis="black",add=F)


 The code works fine, just the results are not as expected. I compared the results that R calculates for my variable ciw and noticed differences compared to other calculations. I suppose that the reason can be found in the value that qt(0.98, n) calculates. 

 I compared the results of qt with the values I would expect and found out that it returns the values of the student distribution for a one-sided question  (eg. qt(0.99, 10) = 2.76). Is there a way to use qt to calcute the quantiles for a two-sided problem? Or is there a different function I could use in a similar way as qt?

 Thanx, Antje
 
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